Crop Science and Agriculture

About Conference

ME conference feels proud and honored to invite speakers, students, delegates specialists across the globe to its 15^th Annual conference on Crop science and Agriculture to be held on November 18-19, 2019, Bali, Indonesia will be discussed on the theme Emerging New Trends in Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Crop Science. Crop science and Agriculture conference is a common platform for deans, professors, scientists, students, research scholars, directors, and other participants like the consultant, economist, project manager from business and industrial sectors to establish a scientific relationship between academic experts and other participants through sharing information. This is an open event; we welcome and invite you to participate in this prestigious agriculture and crop science conference to make an event as the best event in Bali, Indonesia. Our conference programs aim to give delegates the intellectual stimulus and opportunity to plan the next steps for their organization, departments, and careers.

Scope and importance

Agriculture is the basic source of the food supply of all the countries of the world, whether underdeveloped, developing or even developed. Raising the supply of food by the agricultural sector has, therefore, great importance for the economic growth of our country. Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock. It includes the preparation of plant and animal products for people to use and their distribution to markets. Agriculture provides most of the world's food and fabrics. America's farmers and ranchers make an important contribution to the U.S. economy by ensuring safe and reliable food supply, improving energy security and supporting job growth and economic development. The United States is the world's leading exporter of agricultural products.

Why Indonesia?

The Indonesian national motto “Unity in Diversity” points to one of the greatest attractions of your host country, Indonesia. There are some 300 ethnic groups, a result of both the country's unique geography and history. It is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania, situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world’s largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands.  Bali is part of the Coral Triangle and the area is surrounded with the highest biodiversity of marine species. Education in Indonesia is compulsory for twelve years and the literacy rate is 95.22% (2016). At 1,904,569 square kilometers (735,358 square miles) Indonesia is a 14th- largest country in terms of combines sea and land area. It has an estimated population of over 260 million people and is the world’s most populous country, the most populous Austronesian nation, as well as the most populous island, Java, contains more than half of the country’s population.

     Target Audience

• Agriculture Science Faculty, Students, Scientists,Agriculturalists
• Plant Science Faculty, Students, Scientists
• Agricultural Universities
• Agriculture and Plant Associations and Societies
• R&D Laboratories
• Agricultural Students, Scientists
• Business Entrepreneurs
• Training Institutes
• Forestry and Landscaping Scientists
• Seed Science andTechnology
• Soil science and soil-plant nutrition
• Manufacturing Agricultural Devices Companies

Tracks/Sessions

Track 1. Crop Science

Crop science is the highly integrative science including plant breeding, transgenic crop improvement, plant physiology and improved varieties of agronomic turf using developed cropping system and local crops to produce food, feed, fuel, fiber for growing population.  Last century crop science achieved successes, now which are the part of everyday life. The role of crop science for biofuel production will increase the upcoming year. Starch, carbohydrate, sucrose that can be converted to biofuel and ethanol for optimization of biomass yield and minimizing the inputs of fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides, it needs to grow all bioenergy crops. And to minimize the competition between biofuel crops and human food crops.

Track 2. Agriculture & Horticulture

Agriculture is the science for food cropping and animal farming for providing food, fiber, medicinal plant and many other things to sustain and enhance life. Horticulture is a form of agriculture which includes special method and techniques to improve plant products like vegetables, flowers, medicinal plants, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, seaweed, grass, and decorative trees and plants. Through horticulture, we can do plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, and garden design, construction and maintenance and arboriculture. Horticulturists are working in the plant development, plant quality, and nutrition, an protect plants from insects, pests, disease, and environmental anxieties.

Track 3. Agrobiology & Bioresources

Agrobiology discusses the interlink between soil condition and plant growth and nutrition. Bio resources incorporate horticulture, forestry, and naturally determined waste, no fossil biogenic assets which can be utilized by people for different purposes to create food. Bioresource engineering includes the organic sciences, a biochemical conversion like aerobic anaerobic process, the growth process of the microbial organism and enzymatic methods and fiber, fuel, feedstocks, fertilizers, composting, industrial product and management like modeling, analysis, etc.

Track 4. Agriculture & Environment

Environmental impact on agriculture is climate change, deforestation, irrigation problem, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste. Eventually, the natural effect relies upon the generation practices of the framework utilized by farmers. Agricultural conferences give a chance to analysts and researcher to investigate the progressed and most recent research advancements in the field of Agriculture and Environment.

Track 5. Biodiversity & Ecosystem

Biodiversity of an area has adversely impact on the ecosystem of this area is called biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Ecological diversity is the variation in the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem. The environmental impacts of biodiversity thus are influenced by both environmental change through upgraded ozone-depleting substances, pressurized canned products, and loss of land cover, and natural assorted variety, causing a fast loss of ecosystems and terminations of species and the local population.

Track 6. Global warming & Agriculture

Global warming and agriculture are interrelated procedures, both of which happen on a worldwide scale. Environmental change influences horticulture in various courses, incorporating through changes in normal temperatures, rainfall, and changes in atmosphere changes in insects and disease; changes atmospheric carbon dioxide and ground-level ozone focuses. Environmental change is now influencing horticulture, with impacts unevenly dispersed over the world. Future environmental change will probably adversely influence crop production in low latitude while impacts in northern scopes might be certain or negative. Environmental change will likely expand the danger of nourishment frailty for vulnerable, for example, poor people. Creature farming is likewise in charge of ozone-depleting substance generation of carbon dioxide and a level of the world's methane, and future land barrenness, and the removal of local species. Agribusiness adds to environmental change both by anthropogenic outflows of ozone-harming substances and by the transformation of non-horticultural land, for example, woods into the farming area. Agribusiness, ranger service and land-utilize change contributed around 20 to 25% to worldwide yearly discharges in 2010. A scope of strategies can diminish the danger of negative environmental change impacts on horticulture and ozone-depleting substance emanations from the agribusiness. Climate change may increase the possibilities of parasites and disease affect animal farming.

Track 7. Agroforestry & Landscaping

Trees and shrubs are grown around or among crops, or shrubs and trees in agricultural and forestry for more profitable and healthy. Over conventional agriculture and forest production agroforestry is an advantageous method. It provides a more diverse habitat. For agroforestry, the soil is protected from soil erosion by ground cover. Agroforestry conserves species diversity and secure natural resources, decrease pollution, control soil disintegration, and improve wildlife biodiversity. The advantages of agroforestry contain upgrade of the development of agro-economy and reserve sustainability. Agroforestry influence agro biological system and expansion of crop species. The best research requires is to create cultivate level investigations to economic costs, benefits which may diminish dangers related to agroforestry and support the cost of items. Landscaping also called gardening to include living elements like flora and fauna.

Track 8. Agricultural Crop & Soil Science

In an agricultural conference discuss the improve of soil and increase the quality and quantity of agricultural crop. The soil is the source of all things like organic matter, mineral, storage water and medium for plant growth. Agricultural crop science is discussed about choice and improvement of products. It incorporates innovative work on creation systems, enhancing farming efficiency, soil fertility, maintenance, security, collecting and post-harvesting and pest management. Soil fertility is the capacity of the soil to give all basic plant supplements inaccessible structures and in a reasonable adjust, it supports a luxuriant growth of plants with very little human effort. It contains adequate minerals, soil natural issue, and great soil structure and soil dampness maintenance.

Track 9. Agriculture & Food Security

Agricultural meetings focus on approach presentation for food security and prosperity incorporate state-wise, past, present and future system issues, and harvest insightful maintainability of agriculture. Quantity, quality, and safety, also required for food security. The most common causes that affect food security like drought, pests and livestock disease, cash crop dependence and lack of emergency plans. Globalization, particularly, effectively influences the food production network by endorsing scale effect in the nourishment business. Agricultural conferences allow scientists and specialists to explore advanced and latest researches progression for food security.

Track 10. Nutrition & Sustainable Agriculture

For good health and wellbeing nutritious food is important. Nutritious food provides; proteins, vitamins, minerals and essential fats to our bodies with energy for grow and function properly. In particular, science examines food and how nutrients support our bodies and impacts our health. It recognizes the procedures by which we consume, process, digest, and store the supplements in nutrients, and how these supplements influence our bodies. Nutrients likewise focus on the components that impact our eating patterns, and furthermore influence proposals about the measure of food we to eat and the sort of nutrients, and tending to issues identified with the worldwide food supply. At the point when contrasted and other logical trains, for example, chemical science, biological science, and physical science, nutrition is a relative newcomer. The development, conservation, and readiness of nutrition have assumed a basic part in the lives of people for centuries.

Track 11. Agricultural Biotechnology

In Agricultural conference discuss on agricultural biotechnology which is the combination of scientific tools and scientific techniques mostly based on genetic engineering, molecular markers and tissue culture to change agricultural productivity, quality, assorted variety, and species protection. Agricultural Biotechnology is developed to adapt up to current difficulties which are typical can't be tackled by conventional practices. Agricultural Biotechnology additionally helps in climate adaptation, stress management, and disease management, seeds yield, resistant to insect pest and plant disease and improve soil conservation. Biotechnology has acquainted current advances with manage the worldwide food emergency. The agricultural conference gives a chance to scientists and researcher to investigate the progressed and most recent research advancements in the field of Agricultural Biotechnology.

Track 12. Physiology & Molecular Biology

Plant physiology related to plant ecology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry,  biophysics, and the process included respiration,nutrition,metabolism,plant harmone function,phtoperiodism,photomorphogenesis, natural physiology (plant infections), seed germination, dormancy, and distinctive stomata capacity and transpiration, plant water relations. Plant organic chemistry is identified with molecular science, for example, micro molecules and plant metabolism, Biomolecules, carbohydrates, amino acids, lipids.

Track 13. Crop Protection & Awareness

Crop protection is the science and routine of regulating plant disease, weeds and diverse vermin (both vertebrate and invertebrate) that mischief agrarian yields and officer benefit. Agrarian yields join field crops (maize, wheat, rice, et cetera.), vegetable harvests (potatoes, cabbages, et cetera.) and normal items. The yields in a field are displayed to various components. The yield plants may be hurt by dreadful little animals, fowls, rodents, minuscule creatures, et cetera. Yield security is the examination and routine of directing annoyances, plant sicknesses, weeds and other perilous living creatures that mischief agrarian items and officer benefit and in this way, impact fiscal quality and agri-showcase.

Track 14. Plant Pathology in Agriculture

Plant pathology is the scientific discovery of plant disease caused by pathogens and environmental conditions. It is additionally called phytopathology. Life forms that reason viral disease incorporate growths, microorganisms, infections, viroid and infection like animals, phytoplasma, protozoa, nematodes, and dependable plants. A plant considered undesirable, particularly one that develops where it is no need and frequently develops or spreads quickly or replaces wanted plants. It is an oceanic plant or alga. Plant pathology additionally includes the investigation of pathogen distinguishing proof, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant infection the study of disease transmission, plant disease protection, how plant disease effect people and animals, pathosystem hereditary qualities, and management of plant disease.

Track 15. Animal Farming & Genetic Engineering

Agricultural conference focusses on animal Farming. Animal Farming is agricultural practice to produce commodities, for example, food, fiber, leather, wool, and work by raising residential creatures like poultry, cow, cattle, fish and different warm-blooded animals. Now a day, domesticated animals cultivating is exceptionally very much oversaw as animals are furnished with legitimate dietary food and shelter. These days push administration is likewise a piece of domesticated animals cultivating as it at long last enhances item yield and quality. Pigs and poultry are raised seriously in an indoor environment. Nonetheless, indoor creature cultivating has regularly been scrutinized for numerous reasons - on grounds of pollution and for animal welfare reasons. Animals farming assume a noteworthy part in the rural business and economy of significant creating nations. The agricultural conference gives a chance to specialists and researcher to investigate the progressed and most recent research improvements in the field of Animal Farming and genetic engineering.

Track 16. Agricultural Risk Management

The risk is a vital part of the Agricultural business. The vulnerabilities of climatic conditions, yields, costs, government policies, worldwide market esteems, and other associated components can persuade wide vacillation in cultivate profit the most well-known risk in agriculture is drought. Risk administration is related to picking among options that diminish the money related impacts of such vulnerabilities. Risk administration in horticulture is presently a fundamental device for ranchers to suspect, stay away from and respond to stuns. A proficient risk management framework for agriculture will save the way of life of the individuals who rely upon cultivating, strengthen the suitability. Agricultural Risk Management policies should center on cataclysmic dangers that are uncommon yet make significant damage to numerous farmers in the meantime.

Track 17. Agricultural Economics & Agri-Business

In the agricultural conference additionally, talk about agricultural financial matters and business. Agricultural financial aspects is a field of financial aspects worried about the use of economic theory in improving the generation and appropriation of food and fiber a discipline known as agricultural economics or agronomics. It focused on developing the product yield while keeping up a decent soil biological community. An agricultural economics matter today incorporates an assortment of connected territories, having an impressive cover with traditional financial matters. Agricultural economics have made considerable commitments to inquire about in financial aspects, econometrics, advancement financial aspects, and natural financial matters. Agricultural economic matter economics, econometrics, and ecological strategy. Agribusiness is the matter of farming generation. It incorporates agrichemicals, breeding, and crop production; cultivate apparatus, handling, and seed supply, and also advertising and retail deals. All operators of the nourishment and fiber esteem chain and those foundations that impact it are a piece of the agribusiness framework. Request of harvest generation is raising a direct result of expanding populace. So the market estimation of the product is additionally expanding step by step.

Track 18.  Pesticides and Pest control methods

In agriculture, pests are divided into cultural, chemical and biological means. Plowing and cultivation of the soil before sowing reduces the pest burden and there is a modern trend to control the use of pesticides as far as possible. In homes and urban environments, the pests are the rodents, birds, insects and other organisms that share the habitat with humans, and that feed on and spoil possessions. Control of these pests is attempted through exclusion, repulsion, physical removal or chemical means 

• Biological pest control: Biological pest control is a method of controlling pests such as insects and mites by using other organisms.
• Cultural pest control: Crop rotation can help to control pests by depriving them of their host plants. It is a major tactic in the control of corn rootworm and has reduced early season incidence of Colorado potato beetle by as much as 95%
• Mechanical pest control : the management and control of pests using physical means such as fences, barriers or electronic wires. It includes also weeding and change of temperature to control pests
• Trap cropping: Crop of a plant that attracts pests, violate them from nearby crops. Pests affected on the trap crop can be more easily controlled using pesticides or other methods.

Related association or societies 

Europe 

European Leader Association for Rural Development, Royal Agricultural Society of England, European Society for Soil Conservation, European Soil Data Centre, European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB), UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF), African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association, Africa Soil Science Society, Soil Science Society of East Africa, African Crop Science Society (ACSS)

United States and Canada 

American Horticultural Society, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, American Society of Agronomy, American Society for Horticultural Science, American Society of Plant Physiologists, Association of American Seed Control Officials, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, Crop Science Society of America,  Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), Plant Canada (PC), Portuguese Society of Plant Physiology (SPFV), Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (SEFV)

Middle East

Australian National University ,Australian National University,AustralianSocietyofPlant Scientists (ASPS), Botanical Society of China(BSC),CropScience Society of China(CSSC),Genetics Society of China (GSC),Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP), Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP),New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists (NZSPB), Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (TSPB), Indian Society of Agricultural Science(ISAS), IARI, New Delhi, Indian Society of Agriculture Marketing, Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Agricultural Society of India,Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP).

Market Analysis

Introduction

Agriculture can facilitate economic conditions, hike earnings and improve food security for 80% of the world's poor, who work mainly in farming. With modern agricultural techniques, the market is increasing using improved seeds, chemicals, and fertilizers. Also, the employment of sensors and increasing adoption of livestock face recognition is facilitating the market growth. Increasing support from the government for the development of new farming techniques and global awareness regarding the benefits of agriculture over the years are expected to boost the growth of the agriculture market during the future period.

The modern world has substituted home-cooked food with processed food, resulting in the growth of the processed food industry. The global food processing equipment market is driven by the increasing consumer demand for processed food, focus on food safety and safety of workers, growing need to increase productivity, increasing the focus of food manufacturers to cut down manufacturing cost, and government support to push food processing sector.

Agribusiness is the primary wellspring of national economy for most developing nations. Be that as it may, for the created nations, farming contributes a littler level of their national income. Agriculture is the biggest business all inclusive and been evaluated 62% expansion in nourishment request by 2050 is set to drive the blossoming farming business sector towards cutting edge innovations, prompting better yield and gainful development.

Farming items like sugar, tea, rice, spices, tobacco, coffee and so on constitute the significant things of expert of countries that depend on agriculture. In the event that there is smooth improvement routine with regards to agriculture, imports are lessened while export increase impressively.. This sum might be very much used to import other fundamental sources of info, hardware, crude material, and other foundation that is useful for the help of nation's financial advancement.

Market value of Agriculture

The global market valued at $ 207.5 billion in 2014. It is projected to reach $ 250.5 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 3.2% from 2015 to 2020. Asia-Pacific dominated the global market with a share of around 36.7%.

Usage of Crop protection chemicals

The development of chemicals to protect agricultural crops is an important activity. Without these chemicals many crops would suffer dramatic losses. Herbicides that inhibit or kill the growth of unwanted plants. Insecticides that kill arthropod pests that is arthropods and mites. Fungicides that prevent or destroy the growth of pathogenic fungi.

The Agricultural treadmills in World

Farmers who adopt early use of technology that is more productive and less costly than the prevailing state of the art technology that is when prices have not as yet decreased as a result of increased efficiency, capture a windfall profit. When others begin to use the new technology, total production increases and prices start to fall. Farmers who have not yet adopted the technology and practice experience a price squeeze.

Past Conference Report

The 14^th International Conference on  CropScience & Agriculture hosted by conference series took place at November 29-30, 2018 Bali, Indonesia.. It was organised by Me conference and generous response from the Editorial Board Members of our supporting journals as well as from eminent scientists, talented researchers and young student community. Reaserchers and students who attended from different parts of the world made the conference one of the most successful and productive events in 2018 from Me conference.

The program witnessed thought provoking keynote and plenary presentations from experts in the field of Agriculture highlighting the theme, “Exploring New Trends in Agricultural Practices and Crop Science”.

The meeting was carried out through various sessions, in which the discussions were held on the following major scientific tracks:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Agriculture and food security
• Plant science
• Agricultural product system and agribusiness
• Bio resources
• Agricultural biotechnology
• Agriculture and environment
• Agroforestry and landscaping
• Livestock farming and genetic engineering
• Agronomy and crop science
• Fertiliser and pesticides
• Soil and water management
• Greenhouse and horticulture
• Rice research
• Food and nutrients

We would like to acknowledge our sincere thanks and support to our honorable organizing committee members, scientists, researchers, as well as experts from Non-government organizations, and students from diverse groups who made this conference as one of the most successful and productive events in 2017 from Me conference.

The conference was marked with multiple sessions, Keynote presentations, panel discussions, and Poster sessions. We received active participation from scientists, young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities, who have driven this event into the path of success.

Me conference has taken the privilege of felicitating Crop Science and Agriculture 2018 Organizing Committee, Keynote Speakers who supported for the success of this event. Me conference, on behalf of the Organizing Committee congratulates the Best Poster awardees for their outstanding performance in the field of Plant Science and appreciates all the participants who put their efforts in poster presentations and sincerely wishes them success in future endeavours.

Crop Science 2018

The International Conference on Agriculture,hosted by ME Conferences was held during November 29-30, 2018 Bali, Indonesia. The conference marked its start by an opening ceremony which included an introduction by the Honourable Guest:

Yusuf Leonard Henuk, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

We were overwhelmed by his generous response.

Crop Science 2018 Organizing Committee extends its gratitude and congratulates the Honourable Moderator of the conference, Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, USA for her preeminent contribution towards smooth functioning of this esteemed event.

We acknowledge the help of the Honourable Chair Yusuf Leonard Henuk, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia  for session Agriculture Biotechnology | Sustainable Agriculture | Agriculture Economics | Food Analysis, Safety and Health | Food Biochemistry and Chair   Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, USA and for session Sustainable Agriculture | Agriculture Biotechnology | Crop Science| . Their support brought this event to its grand success.

Crop Science 2018 has taken the privilege of felicitating Keynote Speakers Hendrika Fourie, North-West University, South Africa and Iqbal Munir, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan whose attempts made the social occasion to move in the method for achievement. We were indebted by their presence.

We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Member , for her gracious presence, support, and assistance towards the success of the conference.

The eminent personalities at the conference were

·         Yusuf Leonard Henuk, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

 .         Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, USA

 .         Hendrika Fourie, North-West University, South Africa

 .         Iqbal Munir, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan  

Last but not the least ME Conferences wishes to acknowledge with its deep sincere gratitude all the supporters from the Editorial Board Members of our Open Access Journals, Keynote speakers, Honourable guests, Valuable speakers, students, delegates and special thanks to the Media partners for their promotion to make this event a huge success.

We hope your favorable support will make next series 15^th International Conference on Crop Science and Agriculture to be held during November 18-19, 2019 in Bali, Indonesia too a grand success event.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Conference; we are hopeful to see you soon!

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